Issue 22 - 1992

Coe Review • Issue 22
their mission, and instead writhed upon themselves, dreaming of
absorbifacients with long range power, drooling pus from their
diseased areas, and misbehaving to the chagrin of their several
elders, who asked for quiet but were answered with shouts and the
sounds of sexual non-couplings among the tongues.
Yet the tongues just then completed their mission with
masterful inadvertence as Timmy the Tubercular Seal wheezed into
their slippery patch -- attracted instinctively by the moisture no
doubt -- en route riverway. The tongues had little to do but support
him with their thin wet armlessness of muscle as he fell upon them
(his xylophone going silent) and lay still.
Part 2: Timmy the Tubercular Seal Is Questioned and
Descanted Upon
Timmy adhered to the sea of apodal tongues. This was in the
vicinity of Holy Place where the Pouch Dog extracted her tribute and
mangled the fingers of her helpmates with ratchet and slam of
drawer. She was a beautiful cauldron of pouch dog, sleek and
manifold in her enchantments and modes of reproduction, of which
she had seventy (excluding apomixis, practiced involuntarily,
though for kicks), of which twelve involved fire, sub-which four
involved the burning of genitals, other sub-which three involved the
burning of land at precisely three cubits away, other sub-which two
demanded the burning of the juices that ease congress, other and
summatory-to-twelve sub-which three involved random
combustions of materials and/or concepts, in the vicinity or at great
distance, such fires being particularly arousing since to the perceiver
they effected either spontaneous revelation of themselves or the
unpredictable prospect thereof, such actualities or expectations
exacerbating sexual anticipation geometrically; and of the
remaining fifty-eight methods let it only be said at this point that
they were autoerotic in their pleasures and hermaphroditic in their
mechanisms, though, in at least one relevant case, not partnerless in
the sense of partner as untouchable yet tangible object of sex fantasy.
It was for this relevant case that the Pouch Dog desired to interrogate
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